Habakkuk 2:12
Woe to him that builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
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Pride of Prosperity
... Thus pride, ambition, prodigality, and indulgence bore fruit in cruelty and exaction. ...
as to countenance licentious, revolting rites connected with the ...
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The Sun Rising Upon a Dark World
... little repute, that had they not been connected with His ... and opulence, for the monuments
of ambition and arts, but habitations of cruelty, infatuation, and ...
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Womanhood of the Byzantine Decadence
... and rage, he ordered Martha, though connected by birth ... regent, and was subjected
to great cruelty and privations ... Theodora on the altar of his ambition gave her ...
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The Historical and Spiritual Causes of the Death of Christ
... c) Closely connected with this ... part of the Pharisees, love of gain and political
ambition on the ... and revealed in their true horror, and cruelty, and selfishness ...
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The History of Simon Magus.
... word." Upon these passages thus connected, the following ... long and uninterrupted course
of cruelty and blood ... calculated to foster vanity, ambition, and enthusiasm ...
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The Roman Conflagration and the Neronian Persecution.
... of Peter and Paul is connected by ecclesiastical ... Troy, and to gratify his ambition
to rebuild Rome ... new entertainment for his diabolical cruelty, Nero wickedly ...
/.../history of the christian church volume i/section 37 the roman conflagration.htm

Accession of Cyrus to the Throne.
... and he endeavored to stimulate his rising ambition to the ... It was more or less connected
with the government ... he had first gratified the despotic cruelty of his ...
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Other Self-Asserting Augustae --Verina, Ariadne, Sophia, Martina ...
... movement with which Irene's name is so intimately connected. ... power of the mother,
in whom ambition had stifled ... mankind, but dread of her cruelty prevented any ...
/.../women of early christianity/xii other self-asserting augustaeverina ariadne.htm

The Birth of Cyrus.
... to be, in some mysterious way, connected with his ... prompted by his selfishness and
ambition, which had ... been perpetrated, to remorse for his unnatural cruelty. ...
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The End
... It was ingenuity of cruelty to let him see for ... their life and prosperity are inseparably
connected with faithful ... The ferocity and ambition of a grim and bloody ...
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